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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ji Li feel after the Class Education Exhibition?

2. How did Ji Li get injured in the summer?

3. What did Ji Li do to cheer up Ji Yun?

4. What was An Yi most worried about while not attending school?

5. Why was Ji Li happy to not know anybody in her Jr. High class?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ji Li forced to go back to Shang Hai in the summer?

2. What was Dad doing while he was locked up, and why?

3. How did Ji Li know that her father was hving troubles at work?

4. Why did Ji Li choose to spend her summer working in the rice fields?

5. Why did Uncle Fan come to Ji Li's house?

6. What did Ji Li hope to achieve at the Exhibition?

7. What did Comrade Ma offer to do for Ji Li once she changed her name?

8. What happened in Ji Li's study session?

9. What did Ji Li learn how to raise in Jr. High, and why?

10. What did Ji Li find when she woke up on Chinese New Year?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Father do to protect his family from the searches, and how did this work out for them?

Essay Topic 2

What was the significance of the title of this book?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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